Improvement in water-checks for watering stock from ponds



W. J. Boom..

WATER-CHECK Fon WATERING sTocz mom Poms, sm No17z,695. Patented Jan.z5,1s7e.

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WILLIAM J. BOOTH, OF OENTRALIA, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO CLINTON E. KING.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-CHECKS FOR WATERING STOCK FROM PONDS, Ktc.

Speciication forming part of Letters PatentNo. 172,695, dated January 25, 1876 applicationiiled August 18, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM J EssE BooTH, of Oentralia, in the county of Boone and in the State 'of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a WaterOheck for Watering Stock from Ponds, and for other purposes; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon, making a part of this speciy cation.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of a Water-trough and ioat and check-tank, arranged with a pipe and reservoir or pond, for making an automatic ilow of water to the trough, as will be hereinafter described.

-In the annexed figure, which represents a sectional view of my reservoir, tank, trough, and oat, A is a reservoir or pond, the bottom ot' which is intended to be as high as the top of the trough out of which the cattle are to drink. ,The trough is, in other words, placed on lower ground than the pond which supplies the water. O represents the trough, through the bottom ot' which is conveyed the Water from the pond by means of a suitable pipe buried beneath the ground. Before the Water enters the trough proper it first passes through a check-tank, E, which, for summer use, may be located in the trough, but for Winter use should be buried in the ground at some point between the pond and the trough. In this insta-nce the check-tank is in the trough, as seen. D represents a tloat, made ot' any suitable size, which is placed inthe trough and over the tank E. vPassing through the tloat is a rod, F, which is provided a portion of its length with a screw-thread; and at its lower end, which projects into the check-tank, it has a valve secured to it, which serves to open or close a valve-opening in the top of the tank E by means ofthe thread on the rod F. The operating height of the float Dmay be regulated by working the rod up or down' in the plate d. a is the valve, and e the guide-plate5 and F, the stem or rod to which the valve is connected.

The water from the pond or reservoir Hows into the trough until it is sufficiently high to raise the float D. When the tloat is raised a certain distance it carries with it the stem F, and the valve a on its lower end closes the opening' in the check-tank, and thus causes the water to cease owin g.

The water in the trough is thus regulated either by the stem F or by Weights, which may be placed in the Ioat.

The checktank and the trough should always be placed upon the same water-level.

At that end of the pipe B which connects the trough with the pond, and which is submerged in the pond, I provide a short pipe, G, which is closed at its receiving end, and there provided with a tubular sieve, f, which is suspended by the iioat H, and servesto strain the water entering the pipe G.

It will readily be seen that by this arrangel ment l make a cattle-trough which will always have a supply of water automatically when there is Water in the pond,'and that no water is Wastedonly that being used which the cattle consume.

The pipes may be made of galvanized iron or other suitable material.

I do not broadly claim controlling the flow of water into a feed-trough from a tank or pond by means of an automatically-acting valve, as I am aware such is not new.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is V The rod F, having its lower portion threaded, in combination with the guide e, plate d, iioat D, and check-tank E, for the purpose of regulating the height ot' water in the trough C, substantially as speciiied.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of August, 1874.

CLINTON E. KING, R. E. HARRIS. 

